Journal of High Energy Physics (Dec 2022)

Quantum chaos, scrambling and operator growth in T T ¯ $$ T\overline{T} $$ deformed SYK models

  • Song He,
  • Pak Hang Chris Lau,
  • Zhuo-Yu Xian,
  • Long Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2022)070
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2022, no. 12
pp. 1 – 32

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Abstract In this work, we investigate the quantum chaos in various T T ¯ $$ T\overline{T} $$ -deformed SYK models with finite N, including the SYK4, the supersymmetric SYK4, and the SYK2 models. We numerically study the evolution of the spectral form factor (SFF), the out-of-time ordered correlator (OTOC), and the Krylov complexity. We find that the characteristic evolution of the SFF, OTOC and K-complexity of both the SYK4 and SSYK4 models remains unchanged under the deformation, which implies that the properties of quantum chaos is preserved. We also identify a many-body localization behavior in the deformed SYK2 model.

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